I took notice when Madonna didn’t show up on the “scheduled attendee” lists for this year’s Met Gala. She almost always attends the event. Last year, she famously displayed her cheeks for the punk-rock theme. Did Anna Wintour have a problem with Madge’s rebellious bum? Madonna did not attend and instead posted a very NSFW Instagram of her proposed costume for 2014. We won’t post the photo here because it features nips. You can see the image on Instagram. The photos shows Madonna’s alleged torso all wrapped up in straps. She’s presumably wearing nothing else.

Madonna’s caption for the photos is “What i wanted to wear to Met Ball but Anna said Not this year! So I’m gonna work on music instead?#artforfreedom.” Madonna even provided a “censored” bar across her rack, but we can see everything anyway.

Is this a message to Anna Wintour, or did Madonna simply decide not to attend this year’s gala? Part of me believes that Wintour told Madge to rein in her butt cheeks only to have Madonna overreact. No matter what, Madonna wants us to notice that she wasn’t at the Met Gala this year. She’s such a rebel.

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I’m not a huge fan of Madonna, the person, but she probably would have come up with something interesting to wear. The Met gala: is it turning into a has-been/wanna-be event, aside from SJP (who has credentials in fashion at least)? When you have Kim K wearing a glorified prom dress (albeit an improvement over the usual choices) has the event jumped the shark?

Yup, Madonna gets it. She gets tongues wagging which is the whole point of such a high-profile event like the MET. It’s not meant to fly under the radar. At least she commits to it instead of wearing some basic oatmeal supporting actor Golden Globe frock.

Besides, she wasn’t going to attend because she’s been working on her new album for some weeks now and when she’s working, she’s WORKING.

Not a big madonna fan, but I am a fan of people -esp. women- who buck societal norms and re-invent what “their age” means. I mean, why the hell not. There are enough “normal” 55 year olds out there in the world.

Please, you clearly forgot that she appropriate so many cultures over and over again? That she showed up in an outfit by Gaultier and let her breasts dangle out of the outfit for the promotion of Erotica? That she dressed like Evita and had a baby stroller with her on the runway during the Evita era? She was pulling far worse stunts in the 90s and they predicted that Erotica would be the era that killed her career. It was too much, even for Madonna so she made a light comeback with Bedtime Stories which showed a softer, more artsy side (e.g.Bjork wrote a song for Hooper for Madonna) and then killed it with ROL.

If you read any bio about her than you would know that Desperation is her middle name. She craved attention from her father, her lovers, her band members, her fans: the world! Her whole life is dominated by the absence of a mother and she took that obsession to the extreme which culminated in her thirst for the attention she feels she missed growing up in a big family.

I agree with Kiddo. Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour used dance, theatre, music and fashion which was never done before on such a grand scale. She started trends and never followed them.

Not just any narcissist – a pathological narcissist. Pathological narcissists do not age well, especially those who have attained and fed off of the kind of attention Madonna has throughout her career. She’ll just get more & more desperate with her antics if she doesn’t get the attention she seeks.

All she has is her ‘shock-factor’. She’s not exceptionally talented where her voice or songwriting skills is concerned. Yes, she used to be a hitmaker, but her songs don’t score anymore. All she has left is this.

No, it’s not the old bitter lady thread, it’s the “we’re sick of you shoving your tits in our face Madonna” thread. Or perhaps the “dislike of desperate has-beens who rely on tawdry shock tactics to get attention” thread.

@goddesslove Totally agree with you. It’s disheartening to see other women making ageist comments about other women. In every Madonna thread there’s at least one “granny” or “old hag” reference. They’re pretty predictable on here.

The comments aren’t ageist – they’re a reaction to her overweening narcissism and exhibitionist nonsense. Her behaviour is nothing more than a tawdry attempt to gain attention by any means possible. She’s ridden the minimal talent wave for too long and now has to resort to silly stunts to keep relevant.

Is Madonna too old for some of these antics? Yes. Then say that. I’m fine with that, but every other comment is “she’s old.” For many of the people that comment on this site, it seems like anyone over 40 is old.

Madonna is hot! But so are bunches of women. When I saw her nip on Instagram, I just felt tired. We all have nips and they are basically the same. Hohum. It is kind of disturbing to me that I am not seeing a woman who is embracing the emergence of wisdom, strength and elegance of age. She is brilliant, and perfectly capable of a new definition of age other than competing with the teeny-bopper. It AGES her in the WRONG way!

Well stated wolfpup – she’s too narcissistic to embrace age with wisdom and respect. She continues to think that offending and shocking are the only ways to maintain relevance. We don’t denigrate age on this blog, we embrace it – look at some of the adoring comments about Dame Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, etc. etc. We think they rock! It’s women like Madonna who have embraced nothing more than vast amounts of plastic surgery, excessive working out and dressing like a pop tart to stay youthful instead of welcoming “the elegance of age”. She’ll stoop to anything to stay in the spotlight.

I don’t think Anna would dare try to censor Madonna because only god and Madonna know what she would do to retaliate. Besides Anna Wintour is no longer all that tasteful either. She hangs on KanYe West and his reality ho after all. I just don’t get the Anna love for KanYe who can barely speak without adding a muther-f****r in every other sentence. Such talent.

Madonna is so lame. She’s so desperate to remain relevant but her stupid antics are so high school that she just comes off like a old hag with a stale bag of gimmicks. There are women in the limelight who are older yet way more cool and relevant than Madonna.